Aspire Index Auditing is a feature aimed to help administrators keep track of all content source actions and search engine indexes in order to identify possible differences and problems between both of them.
Index Auditing consists of three components:
On this page:
If you're interested in learning more, here's a recording of the Tech Talk on the Performance and Auditing Tech Talk along with the Performance and Auditing Tech Talk presentation.
By default, every content source will log every action done for each of the documents crawled, to disable it go to the Advanced Connector Properties in the content source configuration and uncheck the Enable Auditing option.
There are 2 types of events logged:
The actions logged by the auditing are:
To see the audit logs of any crawls from the Aspire UI, open the content source statistics, and click View Audit Logs:
After you click on View Audit Logs, the following page will be displayed:
You can filter the audit logs by type and/or action.
By Type
By Action
The auditing log files for a search engine are generated via index dumps. Only these publishers are able to create index dumps:
To dump an index and compare it you have to:
All publisher and content source audit files are located at {aspire-distribution-home}/audit.